"We do not mean simply that authoritarianism is on the rise. We mean that international structures that have sustained peace are giving way to war." Craig Calhoun & Charles Taylor have responded on their work "Degenerations of Democracy" (HUP, 2022) 📚 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

Call for papers: we are organizing a conference in Paris in May 2026 for the 250 years of Franco-American relations. Send your proposal by June 15! 🇫🇷🇺🇸 David A. Bell

"The book does very little to pinpoint the exact ways Hayek’s thought has specifically influenced this group": tocqueville21.com/le-club/4603/

We're delighted to sponsor an interdisciplinary conference in Paris on “A Quarter-Millenium of Franco-American Relations,” on May 28-29, 2026. Submit your proposal here ⬇️ David A. Bell tocqueville21.com/the-tocquevill…

Gaullism's Bitter End tocqueville21.com/art-goldhammer… via @tocqueville21

Gaullism's Bitter End, by Arthur Goldhammer 🇫🇷 "This is the sad state to which French politics has been reduced by Macron’s fateful decision to dissolve parliament. Or was it rather by deeper structural forces?" tocqueville21.com/art-goldhammer…

"L’accroissement des inégalités en France comme aux États-Unis menace aujourd’hui la démocratie. La fin du mois préoccupe plus les classes populaires que le wokisme." Retrouvez le compte-rendu des Conversations Tocqueville 2024 par Françoise Mélonio 📚 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

Is Tocqueville a thinker for the right or the left? “In spite of claims to the contrary, Tocqueville saw himself as a friend of democracy and he criticized it 'as a friend not as a censor.'” An article by Jose Antonio Aguilar Rivera 📚 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

"Tocqueville wants to use the tool of national character because he recognizes the resemblance that marks a people, while not falling into hasty generalizations, determinism or fatalism." An article by Michela Nacci 📚 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

Seymour Drescher is one of the most eminent scholars on Alexis de Tocqueville. For his 90th birthday, Ewa Atanassow and Jeremy Jennings wrote an appreciation 📚⬇️ muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

"S’il ne s’agit pas de nier les faiblesses de la démocratie, on ne saurait en conclure pour autant à l’échec du principe démocratique." Un compte-rendu des "Désillusions de la démocratie" de Dominique Schnapper (Gallimard), par Françoise Mélonio 📚 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

The French Socialist Party: No Direction Home, A Complete Unknown tocqueville21.com/art-goldhammer… via @tocqueville21

Debate! Debate! A debate has broken out among three potential French presidential candidates for 2027. tocqueville21.com/art-goldhammer… via @tocqueville21

"Jennings also travels with the readers, offering them an intellectual tour de force through the geographies of Tocqueville’s mind." A review of Jeremy Jennings' "Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America" (Harvard University Press) by David Ragazzoni muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

"Bayrou has accomplished nothing while in office and will leave no mark upon exiting, but the country will once again be plunged into a leadership crisis nearly a year after the initial crisis." Arthur Goldhammer's analysis on France 🇫🇷

"I found 'Reading the Constitution' to be profound. Especially for readers whose interests straddle European and American politics and ideas, this is an outstanding book." A review of Stephen Breyer's book (Simon & Schuster) by Daniel Gordon 📚 muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article…

Congratulation to our former editor Danielle Charette James !

From our editor Elias Forneris :

Congratulations to our former editor Miriam Pensack for being interviewed by The New York Review of Books ! nybooks.com/online/2025/07…